Building the Modern Church : Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain, 1955 to 1975
- Submitting institution
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The University of Bath
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 148559004
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315570495
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781409449157
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This output is a research monograph, a book of 370 pages, about 80,000 words. It resulted from a long-term research project over about 10 years, partly funded by an AHRC Research Grant and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Architecture, involving extensive primary source research including archives, specialist libraries, interviews and site visits across Britain. It comprehensively studies a key transformative period when modern, liturgically innovative church architecture began, and a period of intensive building activity. A range of analytical perspectives is employed to explain this significant built phenomenon, including architectural, theological and social history approaches.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This book was reviewed in journals including Architectural Review, Twentieth-Century British History, Church History. It was shortlisted for Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain book award, 2015. It informed conservation and heritage, e.g.: Architectural History Practice, report for English Heritage, C20 Catholic church architecture, 2014; Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, listing; Purcell, report, St Bernadette, Bristol, 2016. The author was invited to lecture (Docomomo, London, 2014; Modernist Society, Manchester, 2015); as conference respondent (Leuven 2017); seminar contributor (London, 2016; Oxford, 2017); article author (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2016); book contributor (Buckfast Abbey, 2017; 100 Churches 100 Years, 2019).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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